23 year old sued by RIAA for downloading 5 songs
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The RIAA is filled with a bunch of wankers... suing this guy for 5 songs....
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yea
Please stay off of my IP! Actually a friend of mine has a friend whose teenage daughter was busted for downloading thousands of songs and they hit the household with a 7 figure lawsuit. Not sure whatever happened. But thats just crazy overkill.
show some love for those
show some love for those open wifi signals
I say they did it just
I say they did it just because people say "it is only 5 songs"
they've hit bigger downloaders but I know plenty of people who just download the odd song they want.
made an example of him
I know they made an example of him...
The strategy is simple..
Find someone that has very little resources to fight off a lawsuit, perferably someone young that is however old enough so that his parents won't help him in terms of hiring a lawyer (make sure it's a guy because you don't want it to look that they are targeting defenseless women) that did something very little in terms of downloading (IE: something like 5 songs).
And get that story out to the media to scare others.
The way they look at it will cost him about 5 grand in penalities and another 3-4 thousand in legal costs.
Total cost to him $8,000-$10,000 ... the media covering the story.. priceless.
RE: Defenseless women : I was trying to think like the RIAA and they didn't want the media to publish something like 'Single Mother of 2 faces 10,000 dollar fine for downloading 5 songs for her children to hear'
5
so where's the line? if 5 ok, but 5,000 is wrong, where's the point that you went bad?
reminds me of a very old joke:
Lady and Man are talking at a party. Man asks if she would sleep with him for $1M. She agrees.
Man then asks if she'd do it for $2. She replies, "What do you think I am?"
Man says, "We've already established what you are. Now we're just haggling over the price."
He deserves it
Mostly I'm 100% pro-file sharing but this guy just abused his privileges. Look at the songs for god's sake, he needs slapped upside the head. Maybe he'll learn some musical taste in jail :-)
Lady and Man are talking at
Good joke, for sure. Now flip it around. Make it one billion dollars to sleep with the-person-of-your-choice-not-your-legal-spouse, anonymously. Suddenly everyone is a ho, right?
There is a line. The point is the punishment has to fit the crime.
>>There is a line.
There is a line - and you don't cross it. It's really simple. You make your mind up long before the temptation comes along. Do you download/steal music or software? Do you sell your values or your spouse for money?
Personal responsibility and self control go a long way.